Sentences with phrase «system of education which»

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The Taiwan - based firm's new Wisconsin manufacturing facility will make LCDs, which will «be used in everything from self - driving cars to aircraft systems and in the fields of education, entertainment, healthcare, safety and surveillance, advanced manufacturing systems and office automation, among others,» Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

Through surveys and other analysis, they identified a long list of factors that were interacting like a chemical equation, which is the unsexy secret about how education systems usually work.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

We promised to restore funding to our health and education systems - which we did with the passing of the Interim Supply Act.

They have created Prelude, a suite of educational tools that develops soft skills — imagination, intuition, hunch, affect and creativity — the value of which is beginning to be properly recognized in the education system and greater society.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

So a fundamental part of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

The colleges argue that students, including LGBT students, have a wide range of institutions from which to choose, and that a pluralistic system in education should not disfavor an institution that follows a distinctive religious - moral perspective, or the students who choose it.

The limitations of the engineering approach to social problems become clear as the reader follows Murray through the two chapters in which he discusses the public education system.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

Praxis - thinking challenge this assumption of western Christianity, which is the hidden assumption of much of our education system.

The most important product of education is a constructive, consistent, and compelling system of values around which personal and social life may be organized.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

During his two - month, 5,000 - mile survey trip, Townsend met a number of key figures, of which the most important was Mexico's director of rural education, Rafael Ramírez, who opened the way for him to study the nation's educational system.

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

The penultimate chapter of this book continues to challenge the reader to reflect upon the tensions found within the formalised education system which prevent true unity.

And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

A multitude of local programs, differing according to the national cultures and social systems in which they sparing up, struggle to improve public education, deliver medical care, reduce crime, and enhance economic opportunity.

Coalition for Marriage, a group which supports the traditional common - law definition of marriage, said the figures were regrettable and highlighted a need for the Government to better - support marriage via education and the tax system.

@LionlyLamb: You believe that the public school system's education is «outdated,» and yet you continue to read your 2,000 - year - old book of nonsense, which has not been updated since it's inception, and you believe that the Bible should re-enter the school system, because you believe that the 2,000 - year - old book of nonsense is a reliable source of truth and knowledge?

The basic institutional pattern of modern societies was laid down, in his view, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries with the emergence of a relatively autonomous political system which was accompanied by increasingly autonomous systems in other realms as well, such as science, law, education, and art.

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

Marsden concludes by reporting on sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks's study of American higher education in the 1960s, which found that Protestant churches were «hardly consequential for the system as a whole.»

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.

Education has always been socialization into a scheme of values, namely, that of the culture in which it takes place or of the culture that controls the system.

Similarly, we have a public education system which has been an effective agent in dissolving the ties and virtues of a traditional society.

It is this system of education, combined with intermarriage, which accounts for the peaceful spread of Islam throughout the islands of Indonesia.

Potawatomi Bingo Casino (Milwaukee, Wis.) An internal education and standards program for cook chill systems, the effectiveness of which has not only improved costs, safety and efficiency — but also led to on - site workshops for local, state and federal inspectors that support better food safety for the greater community.

Contact the special education department of your local school system, which is required by law to provide assessment and services for children age 3 and older with special needs.

Aside from the reasonable prices, I like that Street Science is giving back to the education community by donating a portion of each sale to the Street Science Foundation which helps support improvements in the school system.

That said, I think we have two big challenges in our education system, neither of which I think we've got great solutions for right now.

Xiao is part of a fast - growing number of Chinese children whose parents are turning their backs on the state - run education system, which is based on rote learning and limited critical thinking.

Due to its decentralised education system, there are a wide variety of ways in which schools satisfy the religious observation requirement.

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

This new, diverse system will raise standards across the board — which should be the main objective of any country's education system.

Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.

In order for Spain to achieve such objectives it will need to first of all reform its secondary and tertiary education systems, which are struggling to produce the talent needed to feed an increasingly globalised export - driven private sector.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

The plans were announced at a meeting of the Church's General Synod on Sunday, at which the chair of the Anglican Board of Education, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future ChurchEducation, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Churcheducation system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Church schools.

The letter, which was signed by 72 CEOs, said, «Failure to enact this extension before the end of June will throw New York City's public education system into chaos.

In his remarks, Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who lamented on the way and manner at which education is being run and perceived in Africa, said, much needed to be done to enhance education system.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

According to Prof. Yankah, the implementation of Free SHS which runs parallel with Free Vocational and Technical education system is aimed at improving the human resources capacity, promote innovation and create new job opportunities as well as generate income and sustain the development.